My feeling is that Obama is crazy like a fox. Obama wants to make the US a European-style welfare state. But in order to pay for that, he is prepared to end the US's role as military welfare provider to the world. Some European countries are coming around to the view that Uncle Sam won't always be willing to be their defender of first resort. Accordingly, they are looking at increases in defense expenditures, for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
I agree with both statements, and Obama certainly treats the Military (especially the personnel) as disposable toys.
My question is: How far will he provoke Russia? Would a strategic thermonuclear exchange be punishment enough for racist America, and racist Christian Russia?
That is an interesting thought, and at least a part of it is a worthwhile goal. Obviously not the turning us into a social welfare state, but forcing the Euroweasels to start paying for their own defense is a reasonable goal.
Still, I don't think Obama is capable of moving the pieces around the board like a Fox. You could be right, but I still just think Obama is a gifted orator and a good campaigner, but totally lacks the ability to actually lead. I would argue the proof of that is that his foreign policy is failing at every corner of the globe. Nowhere has Obama's global policies made things better. He thought his force of personality that was so effective in academia and low information voters would translate on the world stage, and it simply (and predictably) hasn't.
Still, you make a point worth considering.